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Summary

We need an icon set that runs from A+ to F, with all the ranges in between, but each one needs to be textured differently.

Company name

Receet

What inspires you and how do you envision the design for your business?

We'd like a fun, quirky play on a teacher's grading marks. They'll run from A+ to F, with all the ranges in between (A+, A, A-, B+, etc.), but each one will be textured a different way. A+ will be diamond studded, while A will be gold, B will be silver, C will be bronze, D will be tree branches (? or some other suitable metaphor) and F will be dirt. The + and - signs will be a bridge to the next material. For example, D+ would be a D made of sticks, and a + made of bronze. The style needs to be (for lack of a better descriptor) web 2.0. Inspirations include the Crystal Icon Set, located at http://www.everaldo.com/crystal/?action=preview.

Let us know if you need clarification.

We might have more icon design projects in the future; we'll be more willing to award those to the designer we pick for this contest.

Thanks! :)

Love, Receet

Wants

- Fun, whimsical
- Web 2.0
- Stylistically similar to the Crystal Icon Set, linked above
- Polished, slick
- Preferably in a PSD
- Or, if not in a PSD, then in a transparent PNG in different sizes - 16x16, 48x48, etc.

Don't want

- Flat designs
- Lack of attention to detail
- Something that doesn't fit in with the above mentioned set.